Traditional Chinese Lucky Pattern and Mascot

There are a lot of patterns including lucky meaning among the people in China. Whenever festival, Chinese people likes to decorate rooms with these lucky patterns. People express the yearning for happy life and celebrate fine festival. The traditional Chinese lucky patterns include abundant fine meaning. They are the indispensable content in Chinese’s life all the time.

I introduce some traditional Chinese lucky patterns to everybody. If you like, you can collect them. They will bring the happiness and good luck to you.

The traditional lucky pattern of Chinese character:

Chinese character “囍”

If you once attended Chinese wedding ceremony, you may have seen this Chinese character. This Chinese character often appears in the Chinese wedding ceremony. Its meaning is “double happiness and extremely auspicious”.

Chinese character “寿”

If you once attended Chinese old people birthday banquet, you may have seen this Chinese character. Its meaning is longevity. It shows that wish the old people good health and a long life.

Chinese character “福”

It includes much meaning, for example fortune, good future, happiness, good luck… Chinese will paste this Chinese character on the door, the window and the wall while celebrating the Chinese New Year. It is a long-standing custom that paste the Chinese character “福” in the Chinese New Year.

China’s traditional plant mascot:

Plum blossom

The plum blossom is Chinese traditional famous flower. The plum blossom can bloom in the cold winter. It relies on loftiness and strong character, encourage people to work hard and achieve further success. It is liked by Chinese poet and painter. So, it often appears in Chinese traditional painting.

Bamboo

Bamboo is tall and straight and has upward tendency. Chinese ancient people endued its personality with great ideal, integrity and forceful. It is named as “The Chinese Gentleman” in traditional Chinese culture. A lot of poets praise it through poesy in China history.

Pine

The pine is a kind of vigorous evergreen tree. No matter how cold, it is still strong and green. It has doughty will and unyielding character, therefore get people’s respect. Besides, because it is evergreen and non-old, it is longevity representative in China’s traditional culture.

Loong and phoenix is the auspicious animal in the Chinese legend. They symbolize auspicious, joyous and noble. The loong and phoenix pattern is generally used in the Chinese wedding celebration. Loong symbolizes male; Phoenix symbolizes female. They symbolize couple harmoniously, the marriage is happy.

Magpie

The magpie is a kind of bird that liked by Chinese people since ancient times. It is the symbol of good luck and felicity. It is also the very common subject matter in Chinese painting that the magpie steps on the plum blossom. In addition, it often appears in the China’s traditional poetry and antithetical couplet.

Chinese unicorn

The Chinese unicorn is named as kylin too. The Chinese unicorn is a lucky supernatural animal in China’s ancient legend. It is said it is the deity’s saddle horse. It has the deer body and ox tail, can live for 2,000 years. It symbolizes peace and longevity in China.

Red-crowned crane

It is the symbol of long life. The people often paint red-crowned crane and tall pine together in China.

Lion

The lion is the most common in the Chinese lucky pattern. There are often two stone lions in front of the gate of palace and local authorities. The male lion is on the left, the female lion is on the right. The male lion symbolizes the power; the female lion symbolizes future generations prosperously.

Pi Xiu

Perhaps you have not heard of it, but I believe anyone will like this lucky animal. Pi Xiu is a kind of animal that can help you to obtain the wealth. Its character is fierce, and it will protect its master wholeheartedly. It can counteract evil force and bring the wealth and good luck to its master. It is said it has the mouth, but does not has the anus. It regards jewel, gold and silver as the food. In other words, it only eats money, and does not excrete. So the businessman often puts Pi Xiu in the company or home in China. It is said the richest man Li Ka Shing in Hong Kong has 888 Pi Xiu.

If you do not believe, you can ask the Chinese Feng Shui expert (Feng Shui is a kind of mysterious traditional Chinese culture, just as the Chinese fortunetelling).